1691 Alexis Hubert Jaillot Large Antique Twin Hemisphere World Map, California Island Insects Margins: - min 1in (25mm)

Margins: - min 1in (25mm)

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Although objects resembling lenses date back 4000 years and there are Greek accounts of the optical properties of water-filled spheres (5th century BC) followed by many centuries of writings on optics

1691 Alexis Hubert Jaillot Large Antique Twin Hemisphere World Map, California Island Insects Margins: - min 1in (25mm)Title : Mappe monde Geo Hydrographique ou Description Generale du Globe Terrestre et Aquatique en Deux Plans Hemipsheres ou son Exactement Remarquees en General Toutes les Parties de la Terre et de L Eau, suivant les Relations les plus Nouvelles, par le S. Sanson Geographe Ordinaire du Roy 1691 Ref #: 93406 Size: 37in x 24 1 2in (940mm x 620mm) Date : 1691 Condition: (A+) Fine Condition Description: This very large original hand coloured copper plate